When We Left Earth is a series running on Discovery channel about the NASA space program and it is making me ridiculously happy. It's so easy to be ho-hum about the fact that we went to the moon. Because it was so successful sometimes it seems like it's just something we did. But it was amazing. Astonishing. The fact that we went at all, much less that it was done in ten years. I tear up every episode I watch because with everything that is wrong with people, this is what is amazing about us. This desire to see and to know and to explore and the will and creativity and ingenuity to just...decide to leave the planet and then do it. To come up with a way. So freaking cool. And when I think that right now the Pheonix Lander is on Mars...it is on Mars...taking pictures and data and giving us a window into the possibility of life in the universe and someday one of us is going to stand there on another planet. Maybe there's hope for us yet. It's up on On Demand, so if you've got it, check it out.
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